From the Mystery Lovers Book of Quotations

Liberal principles are all very fine as long as they leave you with something to have principles about. -- Jack Higgins

Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house. -- Rachel Ingalls

It's hard to live a reputation down. Especially when your actions live up to it. -- Michael Z. Lewin

A prompt man is a lonely man. - Elmore Leonard

You know who casts the first stone? The guiltiest bastard in the crowd. -- William McIlvanney

Life is the process of finding out, too late, everything that should have been obvious to you at the time. -- John D. MacDonald, "The Only Girl in the Game"

We gave her everything. But it wasn't what she wanted. -- Ross MacDonald, "The Underground Man"

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right. -- Mary McMullen, "Prudence Be Damned"

People without brains are always dangerous. -- A.E.W. Mason, "The House of the Arrow"

Everybody needs a little improbability in their life. -- Reginal Hill, "Deadheads"

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I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly, there is a tendency for the world to say to America the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out. -- Tony Blair

"How about you?" asked Christopher. "Are you happy?"
"Yes. More than happy. Content."
"Perhaps that's the secret."
"Contentment?"
"Yes. Instead of asking, 'Are you happy?', perhaps what people should really ask is, 'Are you content?'"
"Isn't that like resignation? Like giving in?"
"I don't think so. I think it's about getting in touch with reality. About balancing aspirations and actuality."
--Alan Titchmarsh, "Love and Devon"

Favorite Author Quote from Martha Grimes:"It's just like family, her people. It's the kind of thing these new writers don't understand, that readers want to feel this is a family they can walk and talk amongst. Writers these days only want to write about breakups and breakdowns, everything unraveling and everybody going to the devil."

A Posting from the Middle Aged

Today I went the World Affairs Council of Greater Dallas luncheon where historian David McCullough was speaking about his new book, "1776." I think everyone left the room (all 500 of us) inspired and walking taller, at the thought that there are great historians living among us and still writing. It made me want to go back and refresh and relearn all of the history that I have forgotten.

And it made me sad because I agree with something Mr. McCullough said: history is not being taught in our schools any longer, and hasn't been for at least a generation. Our children are historically illiterate. Do you need an example?

Ronald Reagan has won the Discovery Channel's poll as the greatest American, beating Washington, Lincoln, Franklin, and King.

Now, I like Ronald Reagan as much as the next guy, and better than any liberal, but he does not belong in first place on this shortlist.

He does, though, if you have never heard of the other guys, and the only acquaintance you have with anyone on the list is a memory of the five days of television coverage that Reagan's funeral garnered last year, with so many people filing past the coffin.

...Without the ability to make moral distinctions based on motive, consequences, the ethical constructs of various parties, everything is equal, and you end up with people like Woody Allen: a tiny speck of compacted narcissism, revolving around the dead sun in an empty universe. What’s left? Well, thank heavens for little girls.

I would not be adverse to sending Woody Allen into space along with Michael Jackson. And then let's lose the satellite link, okay?

A friend leaving for vacation emailed me today, and asked "Why don't you ever take off more than a day or two at a time?" Here was my answer:

We just don't, I guess. The long week is saved for Christmastime, when there are people to see and it's not so hot that you melt onto the pavement after a few minutes. We never took vacations after our week of honeymoon (wherein we fought a lot). Then we started accumulating dogs, and eventually it just seems too much trouble and too expensive to board everyone. Now that Larry is home all the time, he is less anxious to get away.

It may not be true, but I suspect that the America is gone that we used to drive through when I was a little girl, vacationing with the family in California every year (to the same Godforsaken, ugly desert town--my parents were not big on entertaining us). I suspect that no matter what city we go to, we will be seeing strip shopping centers every few miles with exactly the same Target, PayLess, Office Depot, PETsMART, Dots Fashion, WalMart, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Old Navy, and the same restaurants but in different combinations, etc. that we see here in Dallas-Fort Worth and then over and over again everywhere from Longview to Texarkana.

And, you know, if we took the time to drive all the way to Maine or San Francisco or Chicago and when we got there it all looked like a Dallas suburb, I would be really, really depressed.

I think I'm preferring not to know it if all of America looks alike now.

...I am middle aged.

And let me add another thing -- yesterday, when we were arriving home from a grueling day trip, my husband uttered the dreaded words, "We made good time," which translates the world over to the following: "Sacrificing meals, bathroom breaks, and good moods to the god of Good Time." I believe he is lost to me now, road-trip-wise.

She said "Shut up" out loud but what she implied was "Shut up. Do you want to die?"

So I shut up. And she went to sleep like a well-fed baby at grandma's house. Out like a light with what may have been a burp now and then.

Considering the last thing she said to me, do you think that anyone in his right mind would want to shake her gently awake to ask if she needed (a) a potty break or (b) a meal. There is no security check-in on a road trip -- she could have been armed with more than her natural gift for vivisection of missing link husbands.

Factor in this: We had to get home to feed dogs and cats that were going to be hours and hours overdue on their evening meal. I know this because my traveling companion repeatedly reminded me of that whenever I appeared to be lingering just a tad too long in my hometown.

So, speakng as a post middle-aged man with lots of time in the driver's seat, I can tell you "Pure Innocence" never rides shotgun.

And we did make good time. Which is what she wanted yesterday at the outset of the trip, but, apparently, is not what she wanted today in retrospect.

Her variations on the theme of life are what make her so darned interesting. They also are what makes her so threatening. And I, of course, am an angel.

"He said/She said," all over again. :-) My spouse and I often have rather divergent perspectives; in such events, of course, he steadfastly insists that I am wrong. Most of the time, I smile inwardly, because I know that I am right. Yes, it keeps life interesting. 'Course, I'm the one with the high blood pressure. . . .

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Favorite Quotes

The self-delusion of liberalism is bottomless. It blithely celebrates the inane though no less destructive nihilism of Woodstock while treating as nihilistic traitors serious, property-holding, taxpaying citizens who protest a statist takeover of one-sixth of the United States economy. - George Neumayr

You can tell the Democrats are in trouble when a naïve hockey mom from Alaska can appear out of nowhere and wrestle the entire Democratic Party to the ground. - Christopher Chantrill

...Western hand-wringers, the great progressive liberals of the Western world, would rather wring their hands, or like Darfur, hold some ... interpretive dance event to save Darfur every week for the next thirty years. The uselessness of liberal outrage is one of the great constants of the modern world. --Mark Steyn

"America, not Europe, is now the sanctuary of culture; civilization's very existence depends upon America, upon the actuality of American life, and not the ideals of the American Dream. To criticize the actuality upon which all hope depends thus becomes a criticism of hope itself." -- Delmore Schwartz, 1958

"I've got nothing to do and I'm doing it tomorrow." --Elaine Stritch

"...He is, like all great funny men, inconsolable." --John Lahr describing a famous comedian

In taking our self-examining ethos to these extremes, we have lost a kind of wisdom, wisdom that acknowledges the complexity of human life but can move through it to find the simple truth again. While assessing the intricate failings of our moral history, many of us have lost sight of the simple truth that the system that shapes us is, in fact, a great one, that it has moved us inexorably to do better and that it's well worth defending against every aggressor and certainly against as shabby and vicious an aggressor as we face today. -- Andrew Klavan

The elites in Washington, D.C., New York City and the United Nations seem to have plotted a journey to lead America into the New World Order where a cosmopolitan global citizen is no more connected to his country than a sociopath to his fellow man. -- Dimitri Vassilaros

"Obviously if you are reading this then I have died in Iraq. I kind of predicted this, that is why I'm writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances. I don't regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark." --Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr, 1983-2005

Anything that doesn’t show Americans as stupid, selfish, warmongering, religious bigots, half of them living in pampered luxury in garish purpose-built Italianate mansions, the other half downtrodden in the ghetto by Halliburton stock-owning fat-cats, isn’t going to make it to the front pages or the Ten O’Clock News. --Gerard Baker

In Their Own Words: Democrats on W.M.D.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., December 1998: "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."

Robert Einhorn, Clinton assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation, March 2002: "How close is the peril of Iraqi WMD? Today, or at most within a few months, Iraq could launch missile attacks with chemical or biological weapons against its neighbors (albeit attacks that would be ragged, inaccurate and limited in size). Within four or five years it could have the capability to threaten most of the Middle East and parts of Europe with missiles armed with nuclear weapons containing fissile material produced indigenously -- and to threaten U.S. territory with such weapons delivered by nonconventional means, such as commercial shipping containers. If it managed to get its hands on sufficient quantities of already produced fissile material, these threats could arrive much sooner."

Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, February 1998: "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has 10 times since 1983."

...without further outside intervention, Iraq should be able to rebuild weapons and missile plants within a year [and] future military attacks may be required to diminish the arsenal again... [It's} hard to negotiate with a tyrant who has no intention of honoring his commitments and who sees nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons as his country’s salvation.--New York Times Editorial Board

Kennedy: We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Byrd: The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical- and biological-warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons.--Ted Kennedy & Robert Byrd in 2002

I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force—if necessary—to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.--John Kerry in 2002

Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter, and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.--Al Gore in 2002

We know that [Saddam] has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.--Al Gore in 2002

In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical- and biological-weapons stock, his missile-delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qaeda members.--Sen. Hillary Clinton

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons-of-mass-destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.--Nancy Pelosi